Imagine Earth

Imagine Earth

Released May 2021

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

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Evaluation

Imagine Earth launched out of Early Access on May 25, 2021 and has since received a steady stream of feature updates and DLC. The Galaxies DLC shipped on April 8, 2025, adding an entirely new galaxy-scale game mode, a story campaign, and a space station hub. At the time of that release, the developer explicitly stated "we have another DLC in the pipeline, we'll keep going." That next DLC — called "Transformations" — was formally announced on December 8, 2025 and received a full announcement trailer on April 19, 2026. The developer described it as "almost ready" and detailed its contents: a new campaign where players transform struggling civilizations before climate collapse, new ocean buildings (wave power plant, floating algae factory), new disaster types (heat waves), insect farming, slum relocation mechanics, and more. The post indicated it would arrive "early next year" (i.e., early 2026 relative to the April 2026 post's framing), suggesting it is imminent but not yet released. It does not yet appear as a store listing in the DLC list. The developer has maintained an active update cadence throughout — multiple feature patches shipped in 2024 and into early 2026 (updates 1.21.8 and 1.21.9 in January 2026), and the last official communication was the April 19, 2026 announcement post. There is no sign of the studio slowing down or winding up development.
Evidence
Developer posted an announcement trailer for the upcoming 'Transformations' DLC, describing it as 'almost ready' and detailing its new campaign, buildings, and disaster types. This is the most recent communication from the developer.
news post · Apr 19, 2026 source content planned
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Developer officially announced the 'Transformation' DLC with a description of its campaign and new building features, stating it would arrive early the following year.
news post · Dec 8, 2025 source content planned
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Released
Apr 2025
Released
May 2021

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Serious Bros.
Achievements
25
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Imagine Earth is a real-time planet simulation and a build up strategy game. Your job as a space colony manager is to explore and populate distant planets. Build up thriving and profitable colonies on a global scale and trade resources and goods into space.

Profits vs. Ecocide

You will experience a massive conflict between the profit goals of the interstellar corporations and the need to preserve living conditions for your people. Exhaust emissions and ground pollution impact the global climate as your colony is growing. Increasing temperatures melt down polar caps and your colonies are destroyed by rising sea levels.

Expansion & Research

Raise great cities and satisfy their appetite for resources by building power plants, farms and factories. Dig for ideon crystals, pacify riots, research technologies and constructs and maximize your growth while maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

Allies, Threats & Enemies

Get ready to deal with threats like asteroid strikes, twisters, wild fires, volcanoes and rising sea levels. Fend off space raiders and alien investors. Coexist and trade with natives, merchants and hostile colonies.

Capitalist Space Age

In 2048 huge corporations have divided Earth among themselves and exploited its natural resources to a large extent. Now the discovery of ideon crystals allows journeys into space, while technologically and ideologically almost everything remains the same. The laws of the market are being spread into the universe.

Competition and Economic Warfare.

On each discovered planet a competition for economic dominance breaks out. To expand your colony as fast as possible and overcome your opponents you exploit the freely available fossil resources and minerals. Additional money is provided by selling shares of your colony. Take over opposing companies by buying up their shares.

Trade Resources and Technologies

Merchants and technology traders organize the interplanetary trade and will happily buy all minerals and resources you extract from your territory while selling expensive technologies. The same goes for cooperating colonies and alien tribes that live on some of the planets.

Features

  • Global and realtime world experience instead of playing on limited square maps

  • Fully playable and story based campaign with 9 planets / missions

  • Competition game mode to play against up to 5 other AI factions with individual agendas

  • Over 50 constructs with more than 80 individual upgrades

  • Diplomacy and trade with local colonies and space traders

  • Tower defence with energy shields and lasers against space pirates, alien invaders and locusts

  • Development and research system for advanced and sustainable technologies

  • Share market for refinancing and hostile take over ofopponent cities and colonies

  • Freeplay mode with a procedural planet generator for endless worlds and challenges

  • Planet Editor for terraforming, building and customizing individual planets which can be saved and shared

  • Global climate simulation of local pollution and worldwide emissions and melting polar caps and disasters

  • Disasters: Chemical spills, oil slicks, radioactive contamination, wild fires, tornadoes, volcanoes, dying forest and growing deserts, alien and robotic invaders, etc.

Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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